RT Article
T1 On the Practices of Private Security Officers: Canadian Security Officers' Reflections on Training and Legitimacy
JF Social justice
VO 38
IS 1/2
SP 107
OP 127
A1 Manzo, John
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747156159
AB The author presents an ethnomethodological study of private security, in which he conducted interviews with numerous private security personnel working in Canadian shopping malls and office buildings with the aim of specifying their training, their day-to-day activities on the job, and their own conceptualizations of their work. Comments from several of the interviews are included. The author notes that the expansion of the private security industry has been the subject of critiques by many social scientists on topics including the commodification of public spaces and the lack of the kinds of accountability structures that exist for official police personnel. He argues that such abstract critiques must be informed by concrete information about the work of private security personnel.
K1 Police Accountability
K1 Social science research methods
K1 Social science research
K1 Security personnel
K1 Private security services
K1 Ethnomethodology
K1 Private police
K1 Training